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WBAL Radio 1090 AM - Melting Arctic ice will have catastrophic effects on the world, experts say. Here's how.

Jeff Miller/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- If there is any doubt about climate change, look no further than the coldest regions of the planet for proof that the planet is warming at unprecedented rates, experts say. The Arctic, is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the world, according to this year's Arctic Report Card, released last week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The phenomenon, known as Arctic amplification, occurs when the sea ice, which is white, thins or disappears, allowing dark ocean or land surfaces to absorb more heat from the sun and release that en...

A series about Marco Polo is just the latest venture for the man with a shameful past

When students returned to Leo’s this semester, they found previously reusable dishes replaced by single-use plasticware.

POINTE-AUX-CHENES, Louisiana—On a boat ride along a bayou that shares the name of his Native American tribe, Donald Dardar points to a cross marking his ancestors’ south Louisiana burial ground—a place he fears will disappear. He points to the partly submerged stumps of oak trees killed by salt water on…